ACS Premier Club brings together leading suppliers of product in the convenience store sector. These members join as a signal of their support for the industry and a number of exclusive events. Premier Club brings extensive benefits including, premium networking opportunities and insight into the convenience sector at all levels.
For more information about becoming a Premier Club member, please contact the Commercial Team on 01252 515001.
Allied Bakeries is one of three divisions of Allied Milling and Baking, which in turn is part of Associated British Foods plc. We’re the people who make the familiar names you see on grocery store shelves: Kingsmill, Burgen, Allinson and Sunblest. As well as bread, we make rolls, pancakes, crumpets, muffins, hot cross buns, wraps and other delicious bakery products.
Arla Foods UK plc is home to some of the UK’s leading dairy brands including Cravendale, Lurpak and Anchor. Processing approximately two billion litres of milk a year Arla continues to be one of the UK’s leading dairy companies and a supplier of fresh liquid milk and cream.
Aryzta Food Solutions is the Number 1 frozen bakery supplier in Europe with 23 bakeries in 10 countries. Originally founded as Delice de France by Philippe Signolet in 1989 having been acquired by IAWS in 1999 it then merged with Swiss Company Heistand in 2008 becoming Aryzta Food Solutions in 2014. Aryzta is a derivation of the word “Arista”, which means the pinnacle or apex of a single ear of wheat.
At ARYZTA Food Solutions we’re united by a passion for food and the desire to create food to go solutions that help retail businesses serve memorable taste experiences.
Our aim is to meet the needs of shoppers through a range of food to go solutions tailored for the retail market and also through product ranges that we continuously review and refresh to suit the needs of the retail shopper of today either for immediate consumption or as part of a take home shop. We are living in a period of great change which includes the shopping habits of our nation. Shoppers are looking for convenience, great tasting products and a quality assurance with food to go playing an ever increasingly important role within todays retail and convenience stores with our concepts and products meeting the needs for all the key food to go categories of In Store Bakery, Hot Food to Go and Coffee.
Birdseye is one of Iglo Group’s core brands. Iglo Group is Europe’s leading branded frozen food business with sales of over €1.5bn and 28% market share. It produces and markets premium branded frozen food products in 11 countries and distributes across a number of other markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Birdseye is a category-defining name synonymous with high quality, great tasting frozen food.
Iglo Foods’ focus is on healthy, convenient and sustainable foods. They also have clear environmental policies which are aimed at limiting their impact on the environment, these include issues such as climate change, waste, packaging, water, transport efficiency, responsible sourcing, ethical sourcing as well as lifestyle issues including nutrition and labelling, and promoting a healthy lifestyle for consumers.
British American Tobacco’s portfolio holds over 200 brands, sold in 180 markets. Recognisable names include Kent, Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall.
The four building blocks of British American Tobacco’s strategy are Growth, Productivity, Developing a Winning Organisation, and Responsibility. They believe each area to be interdependent and essential for delivering profit growth and long term business sustainability.
Britvic plc is one of Europe’s leading soft drinks companies, with an enviable portfolio of market leading brands, such as Robinsons, J2O, Fruit Shoot, Tango and drench in GB, MiWadi, Club and Ballygowan in Ireland, and Teisseire, Fruite and Pressade in France. We also have exclusive bottling agreements with PepsiCo in the UK and Ireland for global brands such as Pepsi and 7Up.
Our current operations comprise Britvic GB, Britvic Ireland, and Britvic France. The group is completed by Britvic International which manages the export and franchise of many of our brands across more than 50 countries.
Collectively we employ approximately 3500 people and sell 1.9bn litres of soft drinks each year.
Budweiser is an American-style pale lager produced by Anheuser-Busch, currently part of the transnational corporation Anheuser-Busch InBev and produced in various breweries around the world. Budweiser is produced using barley malt, rice, water, hops and yeast. Malt gives colour and the sugar that is needed for the beer to ferment. Yeast is key in the flavour. The hops gives the beer spice, aroma and bitterness. Another ingredient is rice, helping Budweiser achieve crispness in its flavour. Finally, there is the water, which is filtered to make sure it's pure. The brewing happens in 7 steps: milling, mashing, straining, brew kettle, primary fermentation, beechwood lagering and finishing. It is lagered with beechwood chips in the aging vessel. While beechwood chips are used in the maturation tank, there is little to no flavour contribution from the wood, mainly because they are boiled in sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) for seven hours for the very purpose of removing any flavour from the wood. The maturation tanks that Anheuser-Busch uses are horizontal and, as such, flocculation of the yeast occurs much more quickly.
Here at the Burtons Biscuit Company, we are very proud to be the purveyors of some of the nation’s favourite biscuits.
With brands including Maryland, Cadbury Fingers, Jammie Dodgers, Wagon Wheels and Fish n’ Chips, we have been baking biscuits for more than 75 years in three main manufacturing facilities across the UK in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans.
We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits and this dedication has helped us deliver on our vision of ‘Making Every Day More of a Treat.’
Address: 74-78 Victoria Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3XH
Wills Jennings, 01727 899700, 07850 972396, wills.jennings@burtonsbiscuits.com
Dynamic, pioneering and inspiring, Camelot transforms lives – of its many winners, and the countless individuals and communities which benefit from lottery funding.
Over the past 22 years, we have made a winning business of running one of the world’s most successful lotteries. By putting our players first, we have achieved an unparalleled track record in innovation and long-term responsible growth.
We are Cashzone, the cash machine people. Part of Cardtronics, the undisputed global leaders for cash machine services, we make it simple for you.
We install ATMs to ensure your business is at the forefront of enabling financial convenience in a fast-paced world. Whether you are a retailer with multiple stores or a single-store retailer, we’ll design a tailor-made cash machine solution for your business. What’s more, we'll deliver you an exceptional service – every machine, every single day.
Retailers with a Cashzone ATM can benefit from:
Coca Cola Great Britain (CCGB) is responsible for marketing 21 brands (over 100 products) to consumers in Great Britain, developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting Coca Cola trademarks in Great Britain. CCGB employs around 130 people at its headquarters in west London.
Here in Great Britain we manufacture and market a wide range of drinks. Our carbonated soft drinks include well-known brands such as Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite and Fanta, as well as Oasis still fruit drinks, isotonic sports drink Powerade and Abbey Well water. We also own the Schweppes product range, Relentless energy drinks and the Glaceau Vitamin Water range.
Coca Cola Enterprises also manufactures and distributes some products for other brand owners. These include Capri-Sun, Monster energy drinks and the Appletiser, Peartiser and Fruitiser range of sparkling fruit juices.
Concha y Toro UK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Viña Concha y Toro, one of the world’s largest and most successful wine companies, and operates as a UK registered company in its own right.
We produce and supply market leading brands including Casillero del Diablo, Cono Sur, Vina Maipo and Bodega Trivento to key UK trade channels.Concha y Toro was proud to be named ‘International Drinks Company of the Year’ at the prestigious Drinks Business Awards 2015.
WineWise remains a free-to-use and objective category advice guide which helps retailers choose what bestselling wines to stock, how to correctly merchandise the category for their store size, and how to sell wine more profitably. The new site now includes popular, value-adding features – Profit on Return Calculator and Food Matching advice based on retailer feedback. https://www.wine-wise.co.uk/
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One Vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tanqueray and Guinness.
A global company headquartered in Leawood, Kansas, Epay is a Division of Euronet Worldwide, Inc. and a leading prepaid product processor and worldwide distribution network.
Since FIFO Wireless' inception, we have evolved from a local business selling and servicing gas stations and convenience stores with a limited variety of cell phone accessories, to a global provider of a wide variety of state-of-the-art mobile accessories. With over 20 years of experience, our passionate team offer merchandising visits to our customers that bring value to each store that’s visited.We pride ourselves on having our innovative try-me packaging to a wide variety of award-winning custom fixtures made in our own fixture manufacturing facility in Miami. Our wide range of mobile and audio accessories, as well as our innovative and unique displays help to ensure that there’s a solution for each store.
General Mills have been making their way into the homes of UK and Ireland shoppers since the 1960s. The company’s most iconic brands are Betty Crocker, Jus Roll, Old El Paso, Nature Valley, Green Giant, and Häagen-Dazs.
General Mills UK have several ‘Social Responsibility Programmes’ and one of these is the ‘Charitable Employee Match’ where employees are encouraged to participate in their own fundraising efforts and their sums raised for charitable causes are matched by the company. Matched donations have increased annually since the scheme started and some of the charities include Jeans for Genes and Cancer Research’s Race for Life.
At Ginsters, we make far more than just great pasties. We have an extensive range of convenient, fresh foods to keep everyone’s taste buds tingling. In fact, Ginsters has pretty much something for all the family.
Whether you fancy our Pasties, Sandwiches or Pies, all our products are properly filled, using quality British ingredients and bursting with Cornish flavour. Everything we make has a classic Ginsters signature: properly filled to the brim, with the great taste of Cornwall in every delicious bite.
Greencore Group is a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and the US. It has strong market positions in the UK convenience food market across food to go, chilled prepared meals, chilled soups and sauces, ambient sauces & pickles, cakes & desserts and Yorkshire puddings. It also has a fast-growing food to go business in the US, serving both the convenience and small store channel and grocery channel.
Imperial Tobacco is a leading international tobacco company with a balanced market footprint and a unique portfolio of brands and products across all tobacco categories.
Our comprehensive and versatile portfolio of brands and products gives us strong representation in all tobacco products and across all price segments. Our brands include, Davidoff, Gauloises Blondes, West and JPS.
We are a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies (JT), a leading international tobacco product manufacturer.
Formed in 1999 when Japan Tobacco Inc. acquired the non-US operations of tobacco company R.J.Reynolds. The further acquisition of UK-based Gallaher in 2007 nearly doubled the size of JTI by adding 11,000 new employees.
We have eight Global Flagship Brands that constitute the core of our brand portfolio, Winston, Mild Seven, Camel, Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Sobranie, Glamour and LD.
JUUL Labs is a technology company dedicated to eliminating cigarettes by offering existing adult smokers a true alternative to combustible cigarettes. The company’s research shows that more than one million smokers in the US have already switched to JUUL, and we are working to enable millions more to switch in the coming years through technological innovations.
The Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
We’re proudly upholding the values W.K. Kellogg instilled more than 100 years ago — but now we’re doing it in 180 countries across the world. We still provide you and your family with better breakfasts that lead to better days, and we flake corn the same way W.K. Kellogg did back in 1898. It just tastes better that way.
Kepak Group has grown to become one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. Kepak pride themselves on dedication to innovation, brand management, consumer focus and resolute devotion to food safety.
The Kepak group is divided into three key strategic business units; Kepak Meat Division (KMD), Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) and Agra Trading.
Possibly the most recognisable brand names under Kepak Group are in the KCF sector, featuring Rustler’s; Big Al’s; Speedy Snacks and Zugo’s Deli Cafe.
With the huge pressure placed upon the food industry regarding the health and wellbeing of its consumers, Kepak Group are launching a drive to get rid of the misconceptions placed upon Rustler’s products. This is done through their ‘Fit as a Butcher’s Daughter’ ad campaign, strategically aimed at their target group of 16-24 year old males, to emphasise the quality of Rustler’s products.
Kerry Foods is a leading supplier of added-value branded and customer branded chilled food products. We supply our products to major supermarket chains, convenience stores and independent retailers across the UK, Ireland and selected international markets. We manufacture food products across three major sectors: Dairy, Meat & Savoury and Meal Solutions. Included in our portfolio of consumer branded products are over 20 high profile brands, many of which are category leaders in the chilled cabinet.
The portfolio comprises:
We’re also a leading producer of supermarket private label products, ranging from chilled and frozen ready meals, cooked meats, cheese and dairy products.
KP is home to some of the most iconic British snack brands, and also produce all kinds of delicious snacks for the UK’s retailers.
KP is also part of the European Intersnack Group, which with nearly 50 years’ combined experience in savoury snacks is now Europe’s No 2 snack producer, supplying more than 30 countries. Some of KP Snacks’ brands include McCoy’s, Hula Hoops, KP, Pom-Bear, Skips and Space Raiders.
Liberty Flights was founded in 2009 and is now seen as one of the most trusted and well respected vape suppliers in the UK. The business has been built on strong principles – high quality products, excellent customer service and dedicated resource and support for retailers.
Year on year Liberty Flights has seen growth in sales and according to Nielsen data April 2017 became the fastest growing vape supplier with a 54.2% increase in sales. In Feb 2018 Liberty Flights became the Number 1 vaping supplier in a major convenience chain and as a result of this have successfully helped to grow their overall vaping sales. This growth for Liberty Flights and partners is a result of our commitment to supporting the convenience store sector.
Lucozade Ribena Suntory is a brand new company that incorporates two of the UK’s biggest soft drinks brands – Lucozadeand Ribena.
Based out of Stockley Park in West London, the formation of the company follows the acquisition of both brands by Japanese drinks giant Suntory in 2014.
Both Lucozade and Ribena are well-established brands in the UK, and have been enjoyed by millions ever since they surfaced on the high street during the 1930s.
When people think of Mars, they most often think of chocolate – and we do make some of the best-loved chocolate in the world. But we’re about much more than that. We are a privately owned company with approximately 70,000 Associates who are committed to delivering the best quality in pet care, making office breaks more refreshing with delicious teas and coffees, putting wholesome food on family tables and bringing smiles to millions around the world with our gum, confections , and of course, chocolate.
Molson Coors is dedicated to innovation, perhaps best demonstrated by their development of the first recyclable aluminium beer can in 1959 which not only reduced waste, but they made it available to the rest of the beverage world.
Molson Coors have over 65 brands under their belt and some of the most well known include Coors Light, Carling, blue Moon, Grolsch, Cobra, Molson M, Staropramen and many more.
Our dream is to create delicious moments of joy in everything we do.
Our 110,000 employees support this dream by manufacturing and marketing delicious food and beverage products for consumers in 165 countries around the world. We are the world’s pre-eminent maker of snacks, with leading market shares in every category and every region of the world in which we compete. Mondelēz International holds the No. 1 position globally in Biscuits, Chocolate, Candy and Powdered Beverages as well as the No. 2 position in Gum and Coffee.
About three-quarters of our annual revenue is generated in the fast growing Biscuits, Chocolate and Gum & Candy categories, and more than 40 percent of our sales come from high-growth developing markets.
Müller Milk & Ingredients aims to be the biggest and best fresh milk and ingredients business with a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country, producing skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, flavoured milk and brands including FRijj. It also has the capacity to produce salted, unsalted and lactic butter each year for both the domestic and international markets.
Nestlé UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. We are a major player within the UK and Irish food industry employing 7,000 employees across the 19 sites of all our business.
We are proud to produce some of Britain’s best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year
NoteMachine is the UK’s largest cash machine supplier and the number one independent ATM business in Europe. From Self Fill cash machines to Fully Managed cash solutions Note Machine aim to offer a cost effective, efficient and profitable service.
NoteMachine is pleased to be working with Paul Cheema in providing a free to use ATM for the family’s Costcutter store in Tile Hill, Coventry. Paul won the prestigious Convenience Retail Award for Independent Retailer of the Year in March 2013
Paypoint is one of the UK’s leading premier branded retail networks for the convenient local payment of household bills
and mobile top-ups, with operations in Romania and Ireland.
If you’re a retailer looking for ways to generate more footfall and increase turnover, PayPoint’s added-value customer service products and payment technologies really fit the bill. As well as counter-top payment terminals, PayPoint also provides turnkey technical solutions for mobile phone top-ups through all major EPOS systems – and now offers self-fill LINK ATMs in the UK.
PepsiCo UK & Ireland employs over 5,500 people across 13 locations. These locations include the Quaker Oats mill at Cupar in Scotland, a world-leading potato crisp manufacturing plant in Leicester and the Copella apple juice plant at Boxford in Suffolk, as well as a number of other manufacturing, distribution and administration sites.
Our core brands are Walkers, Quaker, Tropicana and Pepsi – but the business also includes a wide range of other products, including, Snack a Jacks, Sunbites and Copella.
Philip Morris International is the leading international tobacco company with products sold in approximately 180 countries. Top brands include Marlboro, L&M, and Benson & Hedges.
Philip Morris International (PMI) supports charitable giving programs that improve living conditions in the places their employees reside and work, as well as in the farming communities where they source their tobacco.
The Post Office provides a range of over the counter, online and telephone services ranging from finance, insurance, and travel services to letters and parcels.
The Post office also provides a wide range of services on behalf of councils and government departments, from application to payments, helping them to improve access to services and reduce costs.
Modernisation is a key focus of the Post Office and one of the first steps of this scheme is demonstrated by digital inclusion. Post Office has been a partner of Race Online 2012 since 2010 and in the past two years has seen over 2million adults go online for the first time, representing progress towards a more equal society.
Premier Foods is a Great British food company with a passion for creating the taste Great British people love, with food that is made in Britain.
Hovis bread, Ambrosia desserts, Bachelors convenient meals, Ah!Bisto gravy, Mr Kipling cakes, Lloyd Grossman sauces, Hartley’s jams, and Sharwood’s Asian foods are just some of the products making their way into the Great British consumers’ households.
Propercorn is the UK’s fastest growing popcorn brand. Founded on a “Done Properly” ethos and belief that there shouldn’t have to be a compromise between health and taste, their award-winning collection of popcorn can be found in 10 countries across Europe, selling 3million packs per month.
In 1987, Red Bull not only launched a completely new product, it created a whole new product category – Energy Drinks. From day one, Red Bull has been giving wings to people and ideas, setting many milestones in sports and culture. Red Bull Energy Drink is appreciated worldwide by top athletes, students, and in highly demanding professions as well as during long drives. Today Red Bull is available in more than 166 countries and sells over 5 billion cans per year worldwide.
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
16 of our 40 brands are market leaders including Persil, Dove, Magnum, Flora, Marmite, Lynx – and you can find our products in the kitchens, fridges, freezers and bathrooms in nine out of ten UK homes.
URBAN eat is the UK’s No. 1 sandwich brand. We create a handcrafted range of sandwiches, salads, prepared fruits, hot eats and snacks to free consumers from lunch fatigue. We recognise that Food To Go is a major footfall driver for the convenience channel and provide creative, convenient and edgy food, with something for every type of retailer and consumer.
Weetabix Food Company is the second largest branded manufacturer of cereals and cereal bars in the United Kingdom. Based in Northamptonshire, UK, its family of brands includes Weetabix, Alpen, Ready brek, Weetos, Oatibix, Alpen cereal Bars, Alpen Porridge and Weetabix on the go breakfast drinks. The Weetabix brand has been manufactured and sold in the UK since 1932; today it is the UK’s number one selling, most trusted and most recommended cereal and is one of Britain’s most iconic brands.
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